Lines Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on His Election for Westminster

WOULD you go to the house by the true gate,
Much faster than ever Whig Charley went;
Let Parliament send you to Newgate,
And Newgate will send you to Parliament.

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Leading figure of the Romantic movement, celebrated for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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